Regarding the link, that looks interesting but I neither have an AMD video card, nor Kaspersky installed.. Can you give some guidance on how to find out which bits of the dump file can point me to the driver/area with the issue?

When I run both of the installers from the website, they both give me the same message, that there are newer versions installed. The MEI installer however, just gives me the same message that the Intel Chipset drivers give.

Right. And you are talking about intel's site or Asus'?
If intel, then there's not much more you can do. You could of course update the BIOS.
If that does not change it, try to contact Asus support/product FAQ/forum to ask if that is a known problem with their product and 8.1.

Yup, this was my fear. BIOS update has already been done to the latest version, I'll check that bit again just in case.

I'm talking about the Asus site, the drivers there are earlier than the ones I have installed, just working through with driver verifier at the moment and it seems to be pointing towards the nVidia drivers, so I'll give those another go too.

How old, what make is your power supply. I had this problem with a machine I built.. (Win 7) and tried the sort of stuff you are going through. Finally tried a new power supply. Has been running flawlessly since. If you have access to a new/bigger/ proven good power supply then try that.

Those nice chaps over at the Microsoft Community forums have helped narrow down the issue, after using Driver Verifier to narrow down the cause of the crash it points towards the Nvidia drivers (even though I was using the latest)..

Now soak testing the new drivers that were released yesterday (after removing them appeared to help resolve the hangs).

So, going to sit on it for a few days and see where we are, thanks for all your attempts so far.

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